The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
84S 
Owna SELECTED Farm 
In Western Canada 
—Make Bigger Profits! 
The most Wonderful opportunity in the world for Busi- 
ii css Farmers is in the " SELECTED ” Farms which enn 
lie bought from 116 to $40 an aero along the lines of 11 in 
Canadian National Railways in Western Canada. 
“SELECTED” Farms 
These “SELECTED” Farms arc carefully chosen from 
the cream of the richest wheat and cattle country in 
America, to meet your special needs, hy experts repre¬ 
senting 14,000 miles of railway, whose advice, v hile free 
to settlers, is of groat practical value. 
A Cordial Welcome 
Western Canada extends a helpful hand to home seek¬ 
ers. Friendly neighbors—splendid schools, churches and 
social life—every benefit that you formerly enjoyed— 
await you in this wonderfully prosperous "LAST WEST ’ 
Big Profits In Wheat, Beef 
and Dairy Cattle 
“SELECTED” Farms average more than twenty bu-hels 
of wheat per acre. Under specially favorable conditions 
a yield of 60 to 60 bushels per acre is not uncommon. 
Beef and dairy cattle yield great profits. Stock thrive 
on the prairie grasses, which in many sections cure stand¬ 
ing and make fine hay. Cattle and horses require only 
natural shelter most of the winter and bring high prices 
without grain feeding. 
Low Taxes—Easy Terms 
There is a small tax on the land, but buildings, Im¬ 
provements, animats, machinery, and personal property 
are all tax exempt. Terms on “SELECTED” Farms: 
About 10 per cent cash down, balance in equal pay incnts 
over a term of years, interest iisiui//// 6 per cent. 
Special Rates to Home Seekers 
Special railway rates will he made for homeseekers 
ami their effects to encourage personal inspection of the 
“SELECTED” Farms along the lines of the Canadian 
National Railways. Full information will be sent tree 
on request. WRITE OR MAIL COUPON TODAY! 
DEWITT FOSTER, Superintendent Resources 
Canadian National Railways 
Dept. 9635, Marquette Bldg. Chicago 
Please send me free and without obligation to 
me. complete information on the ite:.i« concerning 
Western Canada cheeked below. 
Opportunities for big profits in wheat 
Big money-making from stop.; raising 
Special Railway Rates for Home Seekers 
Business and Industrial Opportunities 
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Figuring Out a Fertilizer 
The problem given below has caused a 
controversy between my school pal and 
myself. T'., r main difficulty lies in deter¬ 
mining wh ,■ constitutes inert matter of 
a fertilizer Kindly solve this problem 
for me: 
Making u. : of quotations given below, 
calculate 
(a) The quantities of nitrate of soda, 
dissolved S. C. rock, and muriate of pot¬ 
ash ; 
lb) The CYSt of each; 
(e) The :>her of pounds of inert 
matter requited for one ton of a 3-9-7 
fertilizer. " 
Market quotations: Per ton 
Nitrate of soda, 15', nitrogen. . .. $57.00 
Dissolved 8. C. rotk. W, avail¬ 
able PoO-.. 12.00 
Muriate of potash, 48% K.O. 48.00 
Port Jervie, N. Y. g. l. h. 
So far as prices go. this is an impos¬ 
sible question, for the chemicals cannot 
lie bought at liny such figures. Nitrate of 
soda will cost about X00, acid phosphate 
$25. and muriate r‘ potash nearly $250. 
A fertilizer cont- ining 3% of nitrogen. 
9% of phosphoric acid and 7% of potash 
represents 60 lbs. of nitrogen. IS of phos¬ 
phoric acid and 140 of potash. In order 
to find how much of each is required we 
figure about as follows: The nitrate of 
soda contains 15% of nitrogen. This 
means 15 lbs. to each 100 lbs. of nitrate. 
Therefore, in order to obtain 00 lbs. of 
nitrogen we must have 400 lbs. of nitrate. 
Figuring in the same way we find that to 
obtain ISO lbs. of phosphoric acid when 
100 lbs. of acid phosphate carries 14 lbs., 
we must have about 1.300 lbs. of the 
phosphate. The same rule works out 300 
lbs. of muriate of potash needed. Thus, 
400 lhs. of nitrate. 1.300 of acid phosphate 
and 300 muriate of potash will give ns one 
ton carrying the desired analysis. The 
ton contains 380 lbs. of actual plant food 
and 1,640 lbs. of lime, soda and various 
other substances needed to hold this plant 
food in form. 
Improving Sour Soil 
I have five acres of land on which su¬ 
mac has grown for a number of years. I 
wish to clear this land oft' and plant sweet 
corn and potatoes. Do you suppose the 
land would be sour on account of the su¬ 
mac? Would it be advisable to put pow- 
1 do red lime on soil, lime such as would be 
used for putting on the walls of a house, 
and harrow same in soil? f. e. it. 
Such soil is usually quite sour. We 
regard the growth of sumac as indicative 
of an acid soil. To make sure, take fair 
samples of the soil from different parts 
of the field. Mix them well and put this 
mixture in several cups or glasses. Mois¬ 
ten just enough 'to make it pack firmly. 
Thrust a knife down into the soil and put 
in a strip of blue litmus paper. Press 
the soil up firmly around the paper and 
let it alone for an hour. If the blue color 
of the litmus paper changes to red or pink 
you have evidence that the soil is sour and 
needs lime. From our experience we 
should not expect to grow any crop ou 
such soil unless we used at least 1.000 lbs. 
of lime per acre, harrowed in after plow¬ 
ing. Such soil usually needs nitrogen and 
phosphoric acid. We would use one of the 
ready-mixed fertilizers or a mixture of one 
part nitrate of soda and three parts acid 
phosphate. 
BATAVIA CLAMP C0MPa» i, 21S Center St..Batavia.N.Y. 
FERTILIZERS AND CROPS by Dr. L. L. Van 
Slyke, Price, $2.50. The beat general 
farm book. For sale by Rural New-Yorker 
A Fertility Puzzle 
I have a five-acre lot in which there is 
a streak through the middle that will not 
grow crops very well. I have raised 
strawberries, corn and potatoes on it. and 
on all these crops the streak i.s noticeable. 
Coru turned yellow, potatoes small and 
few in a hill, and the strawberries refused 
to send out runners until very late in sea¬ 
son, and then only a few. All the crops 
seem to act as though the roots were 
burned. 1 can find no worms nor grubs 
in soil. I have used barnyard manure, 
hen manure, commercial fertilizer and 
ashes in abundance. M. G. L. 
No one can tell without a personal ex¬ 
amination. Our plan would be-to ask 
the Farm Bureau Agent to come and look 
the field over. Most likely the scientists 
at the experiment station would be inter¬ 
ested in this. We have rarely seen a 
piece of land which would not respond 
after a good coat of manure was plowed 
under and lime harrowed in. In some 
i few cases a coat of land plaster will help 
by combining with certain salts in the 
soil, so that they become soluble and are 
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washed out. We have several places on 
our own farm where most crops fail in a 
drought. The underlying rock seems to 
come up to a point at these places, mak¬ 
ing such a thiu crust of soil that plants 
suffer from lack of water, 
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If you will need fence next spring and know 
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